Let’s Do It, Let’s Live on Fat

Lions Do It, Cows do it, even Gorillas and Termites do it, let’s do it, let’s live on fat.

You know, back in the 1920’s Cole Porter wrote a song, a little funny song, called “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love”.

And that song’s got a lot to do with what we’re going to talk about in this video.

In case you’ve never heard the song, here’s a version on Youtube:

Be aware, the lyrics in this version are not politically correct. I share this link only because the music is so authentic to this song, being recorded in 1928, not because I agree with the use of these terms.

Birds, do it
Bees, do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.

It’s got a few lines that’s just funny and I’m going to read them to you.

The chimpanzees in the zoos, do it,
Some courageous kangaroos do it, Let’s do it. Let’s fall in love
I’m sure giraffes on the sly do it
Heavy hippopotami do it, Let’s do it. let’s fall in love
Old sloths who hang down from twigs do it
Though the effort is great
Sweet guinea pigs do it; buy a couple and wait
The world admits bears in pits do it,
Even Pekingeses in the Ritz do it,
Let’s do it. Let’s fall in love.

That’s just a little funny song, that Cole Porter wrote about being in love and how all animals do that.

You know there’s a funny line in that song that goes like this:

Electric eels, I might add, do it though it shocks them I know

Well, what I’m about to tell you, might shock a few of you.

And that line, pretty much sums up where we’re going with this video.

We all know, and we covered this in my last video, that carnivore animals that eat meat, live on a high protein, high fat diet.
We just know this; we’re not shocked by that at all.

Termites Do It

Even termites eat wood and turn that wood into fat.
They live on a high fat diet.
They actual eat a high WOOD diet, but they live on high fat nutrition.

You know, I recently visited the Knoxville Zoo here in my area.
The first animal that I really wanted to show you was the lions.

I wanted to start with this lion because we all know and understand that lions, tigers, dogs, cats in the wild of all kinds are carnivores.
They eat meat, we all understand that.

But you know, if we took a census of every living mammal in the world, all of them, by individuals of every species.

We’d find out that 90% of the mammals in the world are plant eaters.
Ninety percent of the individual mammals in the world are plant eaters.
So there’s a little over 4,000 species of mammals, about 2,000 of them are plant eating species, but of those 2,000, they have the biggest numbers.

So, if you got to thinking about mammals, you would think, they are more than likely plant eaters.

But, we’re going to find out in this video, that the diet of mammals is across the board, a high protein, high fat diet.

You cannot go by what the animal eats.
You have to look deeper, and that’s what we’re going to do in this video.
We’re going to look a little deeper.
And we’re going to find some similarities and relationships that so many mammals have.
It’s going to change the way you look at the world around you.
And it’s going to make you understand how important diet really is.

But, over, through time, different animals have developed the ability to have this symbiotic relationship with these little microbes, bacteria in their gut.

The animal eats grass and stems and leaves and fruit, basically to feed their gut bacteria, and the gut bacteria, in turn, feeds the animal fat.

Fat.

A fat known as Short-Chain Fatty Acids (scfa), or sometimes in the literature, it’s Volatile Fatty Acids (vfa).

These fatty acids are a saturated fat.

Saturated.

And you’ve heard of one of them before, butyric acid.

It’s a fat and it’s where butter got its name from.

It’s a saturated fat.

You’re going to be surprised that the diet of many of these animals is basically a vegetarian, plant-based diet, but the nutrition that they live on, is a high fat nutrition.

In the guts of so many animals, there are billions, hundreds of billions of bacteria, microbes which have the ability to break down fiber.

They eat the fiber, the contents of the fiber, and they produce a by-product, which is waste to them, called short-chain fatty acids.

The microbes get the fiber; the animal gets the fat.

And this fat is easy to use, for all mammals, us included.

Look at these cows.

Look at this bull.

They eat grass all day long. They eat grass and we think they’re feeding themselves, they’re not, they’re feeding their bacteria, they’re feeding the microbes in their stomach, in their considerable fore-stomach, up in the front, what they call a rumen.

And that feeding of the grass to these microbes provides these cows with over 70% of the calories that they use as fat.

The gorilla eats a diet of very fibrous foods and these foods are not very nutritious if you look at the numbers.

For every 100 grams of “dry weight” food eaten, the gorilla eats 74 grams of that food as fiber.

If you look at the food the gorilla eats; the gorilla diet is a very low fat diet.

But, when you multiply those 74 fiber grams by that 1.5 calories of short-chain fatty acids that I told you that scientists say that gut bacteria can produce from every gram of fiber, then the amount of fat these gorillas live on, goes up to around 60% of their daily calories.

A gorilla is eating a high plant food diet, but he’s living on high fat nutrition.

Well, we’ve come to the end of the video and as you can see, I’ve got a different shirt on, it’s actually a different day.

The original ending to this video didn’t work out, it got damaged.

So, I’m going to re-shoot it.

I hope you’ve learned something.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this video.

It’s been a lot of work, actually for me, but it’s something I’ve been interested in for a long time.

I actually did a lot of research on this, maybe as much as two years ago.

And I keep coming back to it, I finally thought it’s just time to get this done.

So, if you like it, you’ll share it on social media, share it on Facebook and Twitter, or wherever you do your social media.

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On my website, there’s going to be a very detailed and written out version of this video.
And, I usually do that with all my videos, it’ll have links to all the scientific papers that we’ve talked about in this video and a lot of pictures of other animals that I didn’t use.

Guys, I’ll be honest with you, this is almost an endless research, there’s so many animals and so many different types of species that have this high fat percentage in their nutrition, but their diet is basically plant-based.

So this is a big subject, and it’s one that would actually take forever if you did it, in any great detail on a video.

But, thank you for watching, hope you’ve enjoyed it, good bye.

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Hello Butter Bob,
My name is Stacie and I am on board with losing fat with fat! I so intrigued with your story and I think I have finally found my breakthrough on weight loss! I do have one question for you. How long does it usually take for you to see progress when you are doing it right and interment fasting as well? Thanks for a response.

Wow!!! I have learned SO MUCH from you! I had NO idea! This video content was absolutely FASCINATING and entertaining! Thank you so much for sharing and educating. You skillfully navigated the complex and fascinating digestive processes of mammals. I loved all the pictures of the cute animals too! =) I can’t thank you enough also for the HOPE you have given me through your videos. I feel like after literally years of trying to lose weight I will succeed. Thank you for taking all the time and energy to share what you have learned to help others. You are truly inspiring and helping a lot of people. God bless you!

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